Laurel Snyder

Laurel Snyder is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she earned an MFA in poetry, and secretly began scribbling her very first picture books. Since then, she has authored more than thirty books for young readers, as well as a few for adults. Laurel's work has been honored with both the Geisel Medal ( Charlie and Mouse ), and the Sydney Taylor Book Award ( The Longest Night ), and nominated for the National Book Award ( Orphan Island ). A Baltimore native, she now lives in a small blue house in Atlanta, where she gardens sporadically.